Legal Opinion
United States v. Akanni Hamzat
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 26, 2000No. 97-1987, 97-2541, 98-3839PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Akanni Hamzat, Adetoro Adeniji, and Sunny Emezuo were involved in a major way during the early 1990s with trafficking in heroin between Nigeria, Thailand, and the United States. Led by Omobola Adeg-bite (known as “Bola”), a woman who lived in Merrillville, Indiana, the ring involved nearly twenty people.
Hamzat, Adeniji, and Emezuo, the three defendants before us in these appeals, worked for Bola in various capacities. Hamzat, who met Bola when he was dating her sister, was a courier. On Bola’s instructions and over the course of multiple deliveries, he personally…
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